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Composer Constant Lambert ( 1936 ) compares Stravinsky's choice of " the drabbest and least significant phrases " in L ' Histoire du Soldat to Gertrude Stein's in " Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene " ( 1922 ), specifically: " veryday they were gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday.

" He writes that the " effect would be equally appreciated by someone with no knowledge of English whatsoever ", apparently missing the pun frequently employed by Stein.